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"No sooner had electronic music broken through in Germany, principally aligned in the two schools of Düsseldorf and Berlin, Günter Schickert also began his first musical experiments. Although GAM, the group he founded in 1973, did not then release a record, he did ...
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"No sooner had electronic music broken through in Germany, principally aligned in the two schools of Düsseldorf and Berlin, Günter Schickert also began his first musical experiments. Although GAM, the group he founded in 1973, did not then release a record, he did ...
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"Zwei Osterei is the second half of a recording session which took place on a single day in November 1970. Klopfzeichen is the first part. Yet the uncompromising Zwei Osterei surpasses the earlier Klopfzeichen album by some distance in terms of its harsh noisiness and ...
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"Kluster was a short-lived project of three musicians/artists/performers: Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Konrad Schnitzler. They recorded two albums with Conny Plank in 1970, unprecedented in their experimental radicalism. Chaotic, apocalyptic (noise) ...
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"Kluster was a short-lived project of three musicians/artists/performers: Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Konrad Schnitzler. They recorded two albums with Conny Plank in 1970, unprecedented in their experimental radicalism. Chaotic, apocalyptic (noise) ...
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"On the red album, Konrad Schnitzler laid down the direction his musical artistry would take. The blue album ("Blau") offered confirmation of his intent. Maybe the "Rot" and "Blau" tracks were recorded in the same session. Structure, sound and timbre of both LPs are so ...
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"Conrad Schnitzler (1937-2011), composer and concept artist, is one of the most important representatives of Germany's electronic music avant-garde. A student of Beuys and Stockhausen, he founded Berlin's legendary Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a subculture club, in 1967/68, ...
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"If you read the name DAF you probably expect forceful synth bass sounds, snappy rhythms, Gabi Delgado and leather - but that was all conspicuously absent when Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft released their debut album in 1979. Later to find global fame as a duo, ...
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"On the red album, Konrad Schnitzler laid down the direction his musical artistry would take. The blue album ("Blau") offered confirmation of his intent. Maybe the "Rot" and "Blau" tracks were recorded in the same session. Structure, sound and timbre of both LPs are so ...
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"Conrad Schnitzler (1937-2011), composer and concept artist, is one of the most important representatives of Germany's electronic music avant-garde. A student of Beuys and Stockhausen, he founded Berlin's legendary Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a subculture club, in 1967/68, ...
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"A ground-breaking pop album: Reissue of the second work from the Ata-Tak-founder Pyrolator, aka Kurt Dahlke, was co-founder of the legendary German label and music publisher Ata Tak. He was a member of several pioneering post-punk bands - DAF and The Plan - and has ...
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"A ground-breaking pop album: Reissue of the second work from the Ata-Tak-founder Pyrolator, aka Kurt Dahlke, was co-founder of the legendary German label and music publisher Ata Tak. He was a member of several pioneering post-punk bands - DAF and The Plan - and has ...
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"Kurt Dahlke's 1979 solo debut as Pyrolator was recorded soon after he left the band DAF. Dahlke aka Pyrolator was the co-founder of the legendary German label and music publisher Ata Tak. "Inland" is a record of cold, urban, unsettling synth sounds and sound collages. ...
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"Second album by the legendary Hanover duo, that was notorious for transgressing every rule in the music business book. Systematically. And with style. The 39 Clocks invented the Original Psycho Beat: futuristic, hypnotic 60s psychedelia with a beatbox deferred to the ...
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"Two years after the release of "Ersatz" (1990), Moebius and Renziehausen issued "Ersatz 2" as the culmination of their ongoing studio collaboration. It is as meticulously crafted as "Ersatz", dipped in the same luminance and confounds with a similar wealth of musical ...
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"1990 sees Dieter Moebius enter new musical territory, cautiously reconnoitering the digital world. His companion on this excursion is Karl Renziehausen, a visual artist and constructor of sound sculptures. The two of them distance themselves sonically and musically ...
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""Antworten" ("answer") is the third instalment in a trilogy of Qluster music, following on from the "Fragen" ("question") and "Rufen" ("call") studio albums. The fact that the music on "Antworten" was created before "Rufen" and "Fragen" were recorded is less of a ...
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"Ulrich Schnauss, master of shoegazer indietronica, and Mark Peters, bass player, guitarist and songwriter in the British band Engineers, present their first collaboration. "Underrated Silence" is a quiet album for the most part. Its multi-layered fabric reveals ...
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